Relationship between the storage coefficient and the soil-water retention curve in subsurface agricultural drainage systems: Water table drawdown

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-285

  Fuentes, Carlos ^a   Zavala, Manuel ^b   Saucedo, Heber ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE TECNOLOGÍA DEL AGUA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Coefficients; Drainage; Porosity; Soil water; Water tables

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; COEFFICIENTS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DARCY LAW; DRAINAGE PROCESS; NUMERIC SOLUTIONS; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER RETENTION; STORAGE COEFFICIENT; SUBSURFACE AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE SYSTEM; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER DYNAMICS; WATER TABLE DRAWDOWN; WATER TABLES;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; DRAINAGE; DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; POROSITY; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER WELLS;

WATER LEVELS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DARCY LAW; DRAINAGE; POROSITY; SOIL WATER; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER RETENTION; WATER TABLE;

EID: 66349139058     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9437(2009)135:3(279)     Document Type: Article

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